Gun Fight on a weeknight
Its another sunny in Phnom Penh, the cool season is here. It just means we continue to roast during the days but nights are cool….the river is almost overflowing and people are lounging about it fishing, watching, begging and playing Cambodian Hacky Sack (Pah! hear the scorn)...
Last week I saw real old fashioned gun fight. Not at all like in the movies, these were poor guys with scrappy shirts and glue bags hanging from back pockets. There was nothing glamorous about it, no artistic angle could have been viewed, it was sad confused desperation and a sense that they really didn’t understand wounding ..and death. The History of Cambodia so forgotten by those not there….some high school students believe that the whole Khmer Rouge wasn’t brutal and the history books must be wrong. However, back to the gun fight, with bullets flying everywhere my moto driver tried to get closer…we were of the first 10 people to stop, so there was I faaaaaairly high risk of being a small head line reading “One Khmer motodop and his Barang passenger shot whilst passing a small argument just off Monivong Boulevard…(with the gunfights origins being over who got served first at a street side stall).
The rest of that ride home I saw Cambodia how I guess it really is, a wild country, PP pushed to moderness that doesn’t extend to the thought patterns of the folk here.
I’m Marketing Manger of Online.
Fancy huh?
Bit of a step up from Dreadlock Doctor
It’s going well, I'm working hard, and can't NOT have at least 3 drinks with the boss after work. If it works out here I'll be set.
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on page 8 of the local paper today (dodging all N Korea) I find this small article a big four-wheel drive Toyota (rich folk) that, at high speed, mowed down 8 people ..it finished by saying the people will not be caught as they jumped out and ran away...which is another way of saying they were too important/rich for any charges to be laid (owner of the truck, many eyewitnesses etc). that’s SO how it works here, if your rich enough your above everyone else.
This countries slogan for 2006. "where only rich people count"
Last week I saw real old fashioned gun fight. Not at all like in the movies, these were poor guys with scrappy shirts and glue bags hanging from back pockets. There was nothing glamorous about it, no artistic angle could have been viewed, it was sad confused desperation and a sense that they really didn’t understand wounding ..and death. The History of Cambodia so forgotten by those not there….some high school students believe that the whole Khmer Rouge wasn’t brutal and the history books must be wrong. However, back to the gun fight, with bullets flying everywhere my moto driver tried to get closer…we were of the first 10 people to stop, so there was I faaaaaairly high risk of being a small head line reading “One Khmer motodop and his Barang passenger shot whilst passing a small argument just off Monivong Boulevard…(with the gunfights origins being over who got served first at a street side stall).
The rest of that ride home I saw Cambodia how I guess it really is, a wild country, PP pushed to moderness that doesn’t extend to the thought patterns of the folk here.
I’m Marketing Manger of Online.
Fancy huh?
Bit of a step up from Dreadlock Doctor
It’s going well, I'm working hard, and can't NOT have at least 3 drinks with the boss after work. If it works out here I'll be set.
cool
on page 8 of the local paper today (dodging all N Korea) I find this small article a big four-wheel drive Toyota (rich folk) that, at high speed, mowed down 8 people ..it finished by saying the people will not be caught as they jumped out and ran away...which is another way of saying they were too important/rich for any charges to be laid (owner of the truck, many eyewitnesses etc). that’s SO how it works here, if your rich enough your above everyone else.
This countries slogan for 2006. "where only rich people count"
posted by Cathy at 7:59 pm
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